Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Charles Putney 2013 President $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Caroline Morse 2013 Vice President $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Edward Connally 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Kinberly Gould 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Melissa Smith 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
David Newell 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Peter Sanders 2013 President $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Stanley Weiss 2013 Secretary $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Ernest Sanders 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Nan Nall 2013 President $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Lise Messier 2013 Vice President $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Diane Stugger 2013 Secretary $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Marietta Formanek 2013 Treasurer $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Janet Turnbull Irving 2013 Chairman $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Peggie Telscher 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Karen Gartner 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Kim Moyer 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Elizabeth Gibson 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Graeme King 2013 Trustee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Peggy Alderman 2013 Development Cmm $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Anne D'Olivo 2013 Gen'L Mgr $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Licia Gambino-Hamilton 2013 Education Cmmtt $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Ashley Hensel-Browning 2013 Educ/Outreach $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Pj Tumielewicz 2013 Stage Mgr $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON
Claudia Williams 2013 Devel Cmmttee $0 $0 OPERA THEATRE IN WESTON

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.